Daucus carotaL.

wild carrot

WFO wfo-0000638442 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC0 / CC BY In the accuracy benchmark

Plate 1 figs. a–h

Daucus carota, photographed by Violet T.
fig. a Violet T., CC BY 4.0 / 2022-06-10 / obs. 204974436
Daucus carota, photographed by Emanuele Santarelli
fig. b Emanuele Santarelli, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 206023519
Daucus carota, photographed by Peter Burka
fig. c Peter Burka, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 204750601
Daucus carota, photographed by Chris Range
fig. d Chris Range, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 205222170
Daucus carota, photographed by SamKelly
fig. e SamKelly, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 204605983
Daucus carota, photographed by Joseph McPhail
fig. f Joseph McPhail, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 205137133
Daucus carota, photographed by Ethan Rose
fig. g Ethan Rose, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 205038393
Daucus carota, photographed by dibbslucy
fig. h dibbslucy, CC0 1.0 / obs. 204111035

Every figure is a research-grade observation under CC0, CC BY or CC BY-SA, rehosted with the photographer’s name, the licence and the observation it came from. Photographs under a NonCommercial licence are excluded from this site and are never stored, which costs us a great many pictures and is not negotiable.

Confused withby our own model

These are not lookalikes we guessed at. Each one is a species our identification model genuinely mistook for this plant, and how many times. The error rate is published.

Flowering n = 15,123 observations

Peak flowering in Jul, from 15,123 community-annotated observations worldwide. This is a global aggregate, not a forecast for your garden: the same species flowers on different dates in different hemispheres, and citizen-science records cluster near cities, at weekends, and in spring. Where a species has fewer than 30 annotated records we do not draw this chart at all.

Also published as 216 synonyms

A synonym is not an error. It is a record of botanists disagreeing, in print, about where this plant belongs. Each of these was somebody’s considered answer.

  • Ballimon maritimum Raf.
  • Carota sativa (Hoffm.) Rupr.
  • Carota sylvestris Rupr.
  • Caucalis carnosa Roth
  • Caucalis carota (L.) Crantz
  • Caucalis daucus Crantz
  • Caucalis gingidium (L.) Crantz
  • Caucalis hispanica Crantz
  • Caucalis pumila Willd.
  • Daucus abyssinicus C.A.Mey.
  • Daucus agrestis Raf.
  • Daucus alatus Poir.
  • Daucus allioni Link
  • Daucus annuus (Bég.) Wojew., Reduron, Banasiak & Spalik
  • Daucus asturiarum Barnad. ex Cutanda
  • Daucus australis Kotov
  • Daucus australis Guss.
  • Daucus azoricus (Franco) Rivas Mart., Lousã, Fern.Prieto, E.Días, J.C.Costa & C.Aguiar
  • Daucus blanchei Reut.
  • Daucus bocconei Guss.
  • Daucus brevicaulis Raf.
  • Daucus capillifolius Gilli
  • Daucus carnosus Moench
  • Daucus carota f. epurpurata Farw.

and 192 more.

Sourcesevery claim on this page

  1. World Flora Online Plant List. accepted name, authority, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
  2. iNaturalist. photographs and flowering annotations, CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA only. per photograph. Retrieved 2026-06-27.

We publish what we can source and we say so when we cannot. This page has no care advice, no toxicity claim and no native range, because we do not yet have those from a source we can cite.